Crap Towns / Saffron Walden / Weather

How often does it rain in Saffron Walden?

It rains in Saffron Walden on 116 days a year (at least 1 mm, on the 1991 to 2020 average), 9% lower than the typical town's 127. That makes it joint 179th driest of the 984 towns in our table. The rain adds up to 628 mm a year, 18% lower than the typical town's 766. It gets 1,584 hours of sunshine a year, about the same as the typical town's 1,532: the 352nd sunniest.

On the 1991 to 2020 average
A yearHereTypical town
Days of rain (at least 1 mm)116127
Rainfall (mm)628766
Hours of sunshine1,5841,532
Nearby towns
TownDistanceDays of rain a year
Bishop's Stortford17.7 km118
Great Dunmow17.8 km117
Stansted Mountfitchet13.7 km117
Saffron Walden–116
Buntingford20.1 km116
Haverhill15.3 km114
Takeley and Little Canfield17.0 km114
Sawston12.6 km113
Royston18.8 km110
Great Shelford and Stapleford16.3 km108
Cambridge21.8 km107
The typical town–127